A cache of Nazi paraphernalia, including swastika flags, an arsenal of weapons, and hundreds of anti-Semitic, anti-Negro and anti-Catholic tracts were found by United States marshals when they arrested a mail fraud suspect yesterday in the Queens section of New York City.
The marshals had to break down the door of the home of Donal Swan, 31, to enter and arrest him. They found also a copy of “This Time The World, ” by George Rockwell, the American Nazi leader. The weapons included a carbine, clips of carbine bullets and 10 boxes of 45 caliber bullets, the marshals said.
Assistant U. S. District Attorney Leonard Theberge said at Swan’s arraignment that the Government was interested only in the mail fraud charge and the “German stuff has nothing to do with it. ” The complaint on which Swan was arrested charged he had used more than 100 fictitious names to get merchandise from mail order houses in the past three years without making payment. The suspect was held in $2, 000 bail for a hearing at a later date.
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